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DaveLegg 694

It does, and I imagine they chose to use @Name in that format for similar reasons: it's easier to automatically parse the messages for those mentions, whereas : would occur more in the body of the message itself.

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dreamsburnred 14

Its used to identify who is posting on the twitter feed (multiple people using it). Many times carrier support (Bell, Rogers, Telus, Etc) or Banks (BMO, Scotiabank) will use them. But I do agree the ^ is weird. Why not *SL or -SL, ^SL looks off.